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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-environmental-impact-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-environmental-impact-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PLANNING\nMade 16th January 2008\nComing into operation 12th February 2008\nThe Department of the Environment is a designated Department for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment.\nThe Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (13.3.2012) by The Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (revoked) 2012 (S.R. 2012/59), art. 1, Sch. 5 (with regs. 39, 40(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules applied (1.4.2015) by The Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/74), reg. 45(4)(c) (with regs. 44, 45(3)(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.1988/785"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. The enabling powers of section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c.51)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/17/introduction",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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